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THE BUZZ | Court: Hoffman didn’t want ‘trust fund’ kids
Court documents show Philip Seymour Hoffman rejected his accountant’s suggestion he set aside money for his three children because he didn’t want them to ... -
OBITUARY | Film, TV legend James Garner, reluctant hero, dies
James Garner, whose folksy Oklahoma manner translated into lasting stardom on American television as an Old West gambler on “Maverick” and a private detective ... -
TOURISM | Shark sightings off Cape Cod a boon for tourism
In “Jaws,” the fictional mayor tried to protect the summer tourism season by keeping a lid on reports of the man-eater lurking offshore. As ... -
As Ramadan fast ends, the feasts begin
For the millions of Muslims abstaining from food and drink from sunrise to sunset every day during Islam’s holiest month of Ramadan, that first ... -
UN to vote on crash resolution; Russia has doubts
The U.N. Security Council will vote Monday [U.S. time] on an Australia-proposed resolution demanding international access to the Ukraine plane crash site and a ... -
Palestinian death toll in Gaza reaches 508
The U.N. chief and the U.S. secretary of state headed to Cairo yesterday to try to end two weeks of Israel-Hamas fighting that has ... -
Flight 17 tragic end for family of 6 coming home
Mohammad Afif and his family were about to start a new chapter in their lives. Afif was getting set to begin his university studies ... -
This Day in History: 2003 Saddam’s sons killed in gun battle
The United States says the two sons of Saddam Hussein, Uday and Qusay, have been killed by US troops in Iraq. The bodies of ... -
Offbeat | SAY WHAT!? Removal by noise reaps barbs in Belgium
A plan by a Belgian mayor to remove a group of Gypsies by playing loud music backfired when the camping cars stayed put and ... -
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CHINA The strongest typhoon to hit southern China in four decades has killed 17 people after claiming at least 94 lives in the Philippines, ... -
THE BUZZ: No Macau residents amongst MH17 passengers
The Macau Tourism Crisis Management Office has revealed that, from the information that has been gathered so far, no Macau residents were among the ... -
HEALTH | Teen’s death in Ohio puts focus on caffeine powder dangers
A few weeks before their prom king’s death, students at an Ohio high school had attended an assembly on narcotics that warned about the dangers of ... -
World Views: Who Did It? What Next?
“…and once the TAR (Target Acquisition Radar) has lock-on, this light will go green. Then just push this button here, and the rest’s automatic. ... -
MH17 | Without radar, missile may not have identified jet
If Ukrainian rebels shot down the Malaysian jetliner, killing 298 people, it may have been because they didn’t have the right systems in place to distinguish between military ... -
MH17 | ALMOST 200 | Recovered Plane crash bodies put on train for rebel city
Armed rebels forced emergency workers to hand over all 196 bodies recovered from the Malaysia Airlines crash site and then had them loaded onto ... -
US building case tying separatists to airliner crash
The United States began building a case linking pro-Russian separatists to the downing of a passenger jet in Ukraine as a somber President Barack ... -
Prayers across Netherlands for victims
Worshippers at church services across the Netherlands prayed yesterday for the victims of the Ukraine air disaster and their next of kin, as anger ... -
This Day in History: 1969 Man takes first steps on the Moon
American Neil Armstrong has become the first man to walk on the Moon. The astronaut stepped onto the Moon’s surface, in the Sea of ... -
Offbeat | ‘Bonnie & Clyde’: US couple pilfers replica of baby dino from museum
Police are looking for a man and a woman caught on video stealing a baby dinosaur replica from a North Carolina museum. The theft ... -
295 people feared dead | Both sides in Ukraine deny shooting down Malay plane
Peter Leonard & Mstyslav Chernov, Kiev Ukraine said a passenger plane carrying 295 people was shot down yesterday as it flew over the country, ... -
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USA A woman from China, Mo Yun, 42, awaiting trial in Iowa on charges she conspired to steal trade secrets from U.S. seed corn ... -
THE BUZZ: Japanese vagina selfie artist vows legal battle against obscenity charges
A Japanese artist who made figures of Lady Gaga and a kayak modelled on her vagina said she was outraged by her arrest and ... -
Scientists name Puerto Rico water mite after JLo
Pop singer Jennifer Lopez may be thinking life is funny after a group of scientists named a water mite in her honor after discovering ... -
This Day in History: 1966 Nurses murder suspect charged
US police have charged a seaman with the murder of eight student nurses in their hostel in Chicago four days ago. Richard Speck was ... -
Offbeat | Uruguay teachers protest attacks by parents
Teachers in this South American country are going on a 24-hour strike to protest a wave of physical attacks on educators by students’ mothers ... -
World briefs
BRICS The leaders of five emerging market powers said at a summit yesterday (Macau time) that they gave final agreement to creating their own ... -
THE BUZZ: Plane heading to hong kong hits turbulence, 20 injured
Severe turbulence struck a South African Airways plane that was heading to Hong Kong, injuring 20 people before the aircraft landed safely yesterday, the ... -
NYC mayor’s plan for rail strike? I’m outta here
New York’s tabloid newspaper front pages next week are easy to imagine: a photo of a nightmarish traffic jam caused by a strike at ... -
GAZA STRIP | Scars show as children endure third war
The children of the Attar clan have lived through three wars in just over five years, each time fleeing their homes as Israel bombarded ... -
USA | Journalist, activist released by US Border Patrol
USA Journalist, activist released by US Border Patrol Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, a Philippines- born immigration activist who has lived in the U.S. illegally since he was a child, ... -
This Day in History: 1974 Bomb blast at the Tower of London
An explosion in the Tower of London has left one person dead and 41 injured. A bomb ripped through the Mortar Room in the ... -
Offbeat | On-duty officer delivers his own son in California
Every now and then a police officer has to deliver a baby. The first time Officer Bryan Anderson did it, the baby was his ... -
World briefs
CHINA Three members of an imprisoned pastor’s family have sneaked out of China to the U.S. with the help of activists after complaining about ... -
THE BUZZ: Thailand’s plan to deport 130,000 to myanmar raises concerns
Refugee advocates yesterday raised concerns about the safety and welfare of 130,000 long-term displaced people whom Thailand’s military government recently said it planned to send ... -
STUDY | US Alzheimer’s rate seems to be dropping
The rate of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias is falling in the United States and some other rich countries — good news about an ...
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